Vegetables fed to farmed fish may have residual pesticides

Today farmed fish accounts for 50 percent of all fish consumed, a new test is being used to detect pesticide residue in farmed fish, has shown how high the risk of contamination is. With the rising cost of fish feed in the world and the ever growing shortage of ingredients for fishmeal, aquaculture is turning to crops like soya, maize and rape to use in fish feed. It is believed that the contamination comes from the vegetable matter being fed to farmed fish. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Schmallenberg have developed a system to test whether chemical substances accumulate in fish that are fed contaminated feed. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.